7/11/2023

Officers: Jeep Johnson, Heather Houze, Wesley Thill, Alan Hennis, Joe Spanier, Fred Bliss

BFL Alignment

• Joe has not had time to check alignment yet, will try to align it on Friday

Midwest Maker Fest / Ignite Peoria

• Pinewood Derby

  • Cars are cut and getting finished by Men's Club

  • Jeep has been painting and printing cars to have extras

  • Awards are being finished by Al

  • Heather has been advertising to libraries, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, etc.

  • Track is 8'x 50', so 20'x50' would be nice to have

• Plan to have pizza for lunch for members who volunteer

New Members

• Heather has been emailing people who came for tours but didn't sign up

• Two of the last 3 new members are people that Heather followed up with

• Visiting student is a member of a Makerspace at his school in Michigan, and Heather wants to know about giving him a starving membership for the remainder of his time in Peoria - officers agree

Fiber Laser

• Joe recommends 30W JPM MOPA LPE (~$4000) https://lasersonly.com/products/flmzjpt30lp
• Need a green acrylic box (~$500)

• Concern - we need to maintain our CO2 laser capabilities first before adding a fiber laser, and replacing the Glowforge & BFL would cost $15K

• There are a number of new desktop lasers that are going to become commercially available soon. $30k laser for $5k. Recommendation to wait until these are available to replace Glowforge (if possible).

CR-10 S5 Donation

• Printer is free, Will Staples has expressed interest in fixing it up

• Wes to let Quinton know that we will take it

New Overhead Projector

• Our current projector is old and getting dim and hard to see

• Discussion to continue on Slack

Membership Status

• 85 members - 72 full members, 5 starving, 8 digital